All-optical gain-controlled bidirectional optical add-drop multiplexer

Author

Tran, An Vu ; Chae, Chang-Jwn ; Tucker, Rodney S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Eng., Melbourne Univ., Vic., Australia

Volume

1

fYear

2003

fDate

27-28 Oct. 2003

Firstpage

142

Abstract

A new all-optical gain-controlled bidirectional optical add-drop multiplexer (BOADM) for use in single-fiber bidirectional networks is demonstrated. The BOADM uses amplified spontaneous emission (ASE) noise path through optical circulators (OCs) to achieve constant gain and low noise figure over a large range of input power. Moreover, the device has low crosstalk, is flexible, and removes Rayleigh backscattering and out-of-band ASE noise.

Keywords

Bragg gratings; optical circulators; optical communication equipment; optical crosstalk; optical fibre communication; semiconductor optical amplifiers; telecommunication traffic; wavelength division multiplexing; Rayleigh backscattering removal; all-optical add-drop multiplexer; amplified spontaneous emission noise path; bidirectional optical add-drop multiplexer; crosstalk; gain-controlled add-drop multiplexer; noise figure; optical circulators; single-fiber bidirectional networks; All-optical networks; Backscatter; Circulators; Noise figure; Optical add-drop multiplexers; Optical crosstalk; Optical fiber networks; Optical noise; Spontaneous emission; Stimulated emission;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Lasers and Electro-Optics Society, 2003. LEOS 2003. The 16th Annual Meeting of the IEEE

ISSN

1092-8081

Print_ISBN

0-7803-7888-1

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/LEOS.2003.1251641

Filename

1251641